Comparison

Flip Unit vs TGSpeechBox

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Flip Unit

Easily convert units across 12 categories including cooking, currency, and distance. Access conversions on your iPhone, Apple Watch, and home screen widgets. This app offers a clean interface and works offline for most conversions.

Highlights
  • 12 conversion categories
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • iPhone home screen widgets
  • Offline conversion (except currency)
  • No ads or tracking
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Flip Unit: The unit converter built for everyone. Convert across 12 categories — cooking, distance, temperature, weight, area, volume, currency, pressure, power, speed, data, and fuel consumption — on your iPhone, Apple Watch, home screen, and lock screen. All for free. No ads, no tracking, no account required. NEW IN VERSION 2.0 • Apple Watch app — full converter on your wrist with haptic feedback • 12 Apple Watch complications — one-tap access to any category right from your watch face • 7 widgets for iPhone — quick-launch any category from your home screen, plus live currency rates on home and lock screens • iCloud sync — preferences and history across your iPhones and iPads, invisibly • 5 new categories: Pressure, Power, Speed, Data Storage, Fuel Consumption • Background rate refresh — currency widgets stay up to date without opening the app CONVERSIONS INCLUDED • Area — square feet, meters, acres, hectares • Cooking — cups, ml, tablespoons, grams, with ingredient-specific weights for flour, sugar, rice, butter, and more • Currency — 162+ currencies with live rates • Data / Storage — KB, MB, GB, TB (decimal and binary) • Distance — miles, km, feet, meters • Fuel Consumption — MPG (US & UK), L/100km, km/L • Power — watts, kilowatts, horsepower • Pressure — PSI, bar, atmospheres, pascal • Speed — mph, km/h, knots, m/s • Temperature — Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin • Volume — litres, gallons, pints, fluid ounces (US & Imperial) • Weight — lbs, kg, ounces, grams WHY FLIP UNIT? • Lightning fast • Remembers your last-used units per category, on every device • Clean, simple interface • Works offline (except currency rates) • No account required • No ads or tracking Perfect for cooking, travel, business, home improvement, and everyday use. ACCESSIBILITY FIRST Flip Unit is designed for blind and low-vision users from the ground up. Full VoiceOver support, haptic feedback on iPhone and Apple Watch, Reduce Motion awareness, Dynamic Type, and WCAG AA contrast.

About

TGSpeechBox

Features
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TGSpeechBox is a high-quality speech synthesizer that works as a system voice with VoiceOver and as a standalone text-to-speech app. Features: • 26 languages with natural-sounding speech • Full VoiceOver integration — use as your primary system voice • 7 voice presets plus YAML-defined voice profiles • Deep engine tuning: pitch mode, voice tone, formant sharpness, inflection, tremor, breathiness, and more • Phoneme editor: fine-tune individual speech sounds with live preview • Pronunciation dictionary: add custom word pronunciations with IPA override support • Stress, compound, and character dictionaries for advanced control • Export and share your customizations • Adjustable sample rate (11025–44100 Hz) • Rate override and rate boost for VoiceOver • Language lock: keep your preferred language regardless of system setting • Runs entirely on-device — no internet required, no data leaves your phone TGSpeechBox uses a Klatt-style formant synthesis engine with eSpeak-ng for phoneme generation. It is open source under the MIT license. Built by a blind developer, designed for accessibility from day one.

Screenshots

Flip Unit4 screens
TGSpeechBox2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TGSpeechBox at weekly against Flip Unit's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flip Unit ships an update monthly, TGSpeechBox weekly. The most recent releases landed on July 23, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Flip Unit versus TGSpeechBox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlip UnitTGSpeechBox
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSIRAJ SALIMTamas Geczy

In-app purchases

None

Flip Unit

No in-app purchases

None

TGSpeechBox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flip Unit free?
Flip Unit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TGSpeechBox free?
TGSpeechBox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flip Unit or TGSpeechBox have ads?
Neither Flip Unit nor TGSpeechBox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flip Unit or TGSpeechBox?
Flip Unit ships an update monthly, and TGSpeechBox weekly. Most recently, Flip Unit was updated on July 23, 2026 and TGSpeechBox on September 13, 2026.

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